N.Z. Minesweeper Fleet
“While New Zealand is replacing a cruiser, and later her frigates, she will also have to be thinking about her minesweeper fleet,” Commodore Sir Charles Madden, the Chief of the Naval Staff, told officers and men of the Royal New Zealand Volunteer Reserve in Auckland on Saturday. “We have to maintain our efforts to keep our present minesweepers up-to-date, and also consider the moment when we must acquire some qf the latest type,” Sir Charles Madden said. He had heard criticism of the evening-drill system of training. It would, of course, be simpler to call 18-year-old youths up for 20 days a year, but he was convinced that it was only by the present system of continuity in evening drills that “we have progressed in the way we have.”—(P.A.)
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Press, Volume XCI, Issue 27637, 19 April 1955, Page 16
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